Gangster Malayalam
movie review: Gangster is an action thriller movie directed by Aashiq Abu who
is best known for his excellent work in Salt N' Pepper. Gansgter is one of the
most awaited movies for 2014 and is produced by OPM.

The movies has Mammooty
who doesn't require any introduction in the leading role and Nyla Usha and
Aparna Gopinath are the female lead actors in the movie. John Paul, T. G. Ravi,
Sekhar Menon, Kunchan, Hareesh Peradi and Dileesh Pothan are cast in supporting
roles. The screenplay of the movie is written by Ahmed Sidhique and Abhilash
Kumar, whereas music is composed by Deepak Dev.

Now, let's take a look at the
movie review.

Story Line
The movie begins with an animation prologue which tells the childhood times of
Akbar Ali (Mammootty) and how he is made to a gangster. Following the prologue,
we witness the titles rolling with a racy background music. The main story
of the movie begins with Akbar eliminating his rival Raghavendra Gowda, and
sharing the business lead with Mani Menon (Kunchan) and Uncle Sam (John Paul),
two other prominent gangsters ruling the city. The city remains calm under
them, until Anto (Shekhar Menon), grandson of uncle Sam comes up with a new
idea of importing used vaccines from abroad at very low rates and selling them
at higher price.

Akbar, who is against
the business of drugs opposes it. This causes Anto to turn against Akbar and he
makes plans to kill him. In the attempt, Akbar gets injured badly and loses his
wife, Sana (Nyla Usha). What follows is the comeback of Akbar
to avenge his loss. Can Akbar on his own take his revenge? Rest of the plot is
the answer for the same.

Performances

Highlight of the
performances is none other than Mammootty himself. He enacts the role of Akbar
to sheer perfection with his stylish looks and dialogue delivery. Nyla Usha as
Sana has less screen space in the movie, but is convincing with her role.

Shekhar Menon is with
his career best performance as Anto, the main villain. Kunchan and John Paul
too have done their roles with brilliance. Rest of the actors including Hareesh
Peradi (Michael), Dileesh Pothen (Vidhura), Aparna Gopinath (Lilly) and TG Ravi
(Hajikka) have done justice to their roles.

Technical Aspects
Cinematography by Alby is brilliant. The frames look rich and some of the
camera angles makes us just awestruck.

Music by Deepak Dev is
yet another relief for the movie. BGM is well made to suit the mood of the
movie. There is just one song in the movie, 'Allahu Akbar' which is a treat to
the music lovers.

The climax portions of
the movie are brilliantly executed which matches to international standards.
The fight sequences are not those ones which we have seen in Malayalam movies.
The director and stunt director deserves a big applause for the same sequences.

Negatives
The movie has pretty much flaws. Many of the the sequences didn't had a proper
finishing. Though we don't expect anything new in gangster stories other than
revenge, the script was way let loose, which needed a better check from the
director and script writers. A better script could have done wonders to the
movie.

Bottom Line

On the whole, the movie Gangster works
only for its different style, performances, music, visuals and the engaging
climax sequences. Rest is pretty much average.